[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] How to automatehdsploader

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:27:04 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at fuse.net> wrote:
> > jackd allows any number of periods.
> > alsa allows any number of periods.
> > the HDSP and Hammerfall h/w only allows 2 periods, because it follows
> > the design of ASIO in its hardware/firmware design.
> 
> And I assume that jack purely deals with direct hardware buffers, right?

I would have thought not. When ZynAddSubFx is attached to freqtweak
the buffering Jack does are in software, aren't they? (ls /dev/shm
while Jack is running. Jack's FIFO buffers are in memory.)

- Mark